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In an effort to expand our outreach to the
masses who are searching for and needing
Messianic instruction, we are now offering
online Bible studies, delivered by TNN Online
editor J.K. McKee. Every Wednesday a new
teaching which deals with pertinent topics for
today’s Messianic Believers will be presented.
For the most part, these studies will be
focusing on specific books of the Bible, but may
from time to time deal with critical subjects as
well.
The online Bible studies are all pre-recorded
and quite easy to access as MP3 files. This is
much easier than having to log in at a preset
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FEBRUARY 2015
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 Dear
Friends:
For the past month, my attention has
been focused on two principal projects,
the work of which has tended to remain
fairly consistent.
In mid-January, we started the
1 Corinthians
Bible study, which as to my
knowledge will be the first ever,
complete verse-by-verse study, on 1
Corinthians from a Messianic
perspective. I try not to be annoyed
with complicated passages and issues
never having been addressed, in detail,
by various people in our faith
community. I instead just look at 1
Corinthians as an opportunity to make a
difference, and to plow a new field. I
am presently in the middle of putting
notes together for 1 Corinthians ch. 3,
which means that the writing for this
study is around a quarter complete. Of
course, things will be getting more
complicated around chs., 7, 8, 9, and
10!
The other year-long project, on which
steady progress is being made, is the
Messianic Sabbath
Helper.
At present, all of the attention is
being focused on Part I, The
Significance of Shabbat. Long before the
release of what will be a massive
resource, will come the five-chapter
excerpt
Shabbat: Sabbath
for Messianic Believers,
and the
Shabbat Service for Messianic Believers.
Both of these will be useful aids, and
they will serve as a stop-gap measure
for the array of TNN Press publications
available. Even though we have written
about the Sabbath many times, we do not
at present have a paperback publication
that deals specifically with
Shabbat.
Expect
Shabbat: Sabbath for Messianic Believers
to be available sometime this Spring.
Only one more chapter has to be written
for it!
Last year as I was coordinating and
working through the
Messianic Kosher
Helper,
I definitely felt a huge load upon me to
see it completed—mainly because this was
a topic that can get a huge number of
Messianic people confused and upset,
really fast. I do not have that same
feeling about the
Messianic Sabbath Helper
for this year, even though there are
surely important things to address about
Shabbat
far beyond where lighting candles or
challah
come from. I have actually been
researching and writing in a somewhat
“restful” manner, even though a great
deal of material does have to be sorted
through. While I have been annoyed in
the past that we did not have anything
comprehensive ready about the Sabbath, I
now know with all of the things I am
compiling that it had to wait, and that
we will release something when completed
that will aid many, on many different
critical levels.
Until next month…
J.K. McKee
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posted 02 March, 2015 to
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This past week I completed the
fifth and final section for the
five-chapter mini-book,
Shabbat:
Sabbath for Messianic Believers,
a planned excerpt from the much
larger
Messianic
Sabbath Helper,
due out later in 2015. This
publication will fill a major
gap, as we have not had a
resource available on
Shabbat since we started
our paperback printing project
in 2009.
Shabbat: Sabbath for
Messianic Believers, should
be available sometime subsequent
to Passover.
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posted 27 February, 2015 to
Facebook
I have been an "observer" on
Saturday morning, in the new
members class at my local
congregation. As an observer, I
have been able to hear many
questions posed by those going
through the workbook, and
comments made by attendees. My
pattern is not to generally
interject statements, but
instead to make mental notes.
Suffice it to say, many of the
things that Outreach Israel and
TNN Online have been producing
over the past ten to thirteen
years are well-needed! We do not
produce books so we can make
money. We write things so that
we can provide a lasting legacy
to today's Messianic movement,
and its emerging theology and
spirituality.
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posted 26 February, 2015 to
Facebook
Anyone who has been a part of
the contemporary Messianic
movement over the past decade or
so, knows that our collective
understanding of the Apostolic
Scriptures is not where it
should be. But are you aware of
how our understanding of the
Tanach is even more where it
should not be?
Today's featured publication,
A Survey
of the Tanach for the Practical
Messianic, is
the only substantial
introduction that exists for
today's Messianic people, into
the controversies, but also deep
richness, of the Hebrew
Scriptures. This resource is a
must-have for your library, if
you really want to gauge the
Messianic movement's strengths
and weaknesses with the Old
Testament.
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posted 25 February, 2015 to
Facebook
This evening our Bible study
will be considering 1
Corinthians 2:1-6. How important
is it for readers of 1
Corinthians to not just
recognize that the God of
Israel, His power, and His
wisdom are superior to all human
power and wisdom--but that the
admonitions issued to the
Corinthians, were done with the
explicit intention of
contravening some Greco-Roman
philosophical views? Modern
Western people do not really
live in a society today where
eloquent speech and rhetoric are
what makes one a "superstar."
The First Century Corinthians
lived in a society where the
right words and ideas made you
"something."
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posted 23 February, 2015 to
Facebook
In the late 1990s, throughout
the 2000s, and now into the
2010s, the Messianic community
largely grew as a consequence of
large numbers of non-Jewish
Believers embracing their
Hebraic Roots and a lifestyle of
Torah obedience. Much of this
has been good, as such people
have started to live more like
Messiah Yeshua and His first
followers. Much of this has also
not been good, as it has been
associated with a great deal of
sensationalism, fundamentalism,
and anti-Jewish sentiment.
Our collective Messianic
movement needs a wide amount of
troubleshooting, on many
different levels, related to
"Torah." Today, we are featuring
one of TNN Press' most
overlooked publications, the
Messianic
Torah Helper.
This resource is specifically
designed to address a variety of
the subjects related to God's
Law, which often are raised by
Messianic people, but go
frequently unaddressed.
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posted 19 February, 2015 to
Facebook
One of the biggest contemporary
controversies that has faced
today's Messianic movement--with
little fair-mindedness
demonstrated--has been the
debate over the "Two-House
teaching." The basic issue
actually surrounds the
completion or non-completion of
prophecies like Ezekiel
37:15-28. Unfortunately,
Two-House supporters have a
broad tendency to make
insupportable and
overly-speculative claims about
the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Messianic Jewish position papers
have tended to address their
problematic behavior, rather
than analyze the Bible passages
of importance.
Today's featured publication,
Israel in Future Prophecy: Is
There a Larger Restoration of
the Kingdom to Israel?,
intends to provide some
preliminary resolution to this
issue.
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posted 18 February, 2015 to
Facebook
This week we will be finishing
up our examination of 1
Corinthians ch. 1. If you are
like me (JKM), opening up this
letter, trying to probe it for
both ancient significance and
relevance for Twenty-First
Century Messianic people--this
has been interesting to say the
least.
It has already been observed how
a letter like 1 Corinthians
records problems--for all
Believers since--that the
Corinthians themselves would
probably have not wanted
broadcast to the generations!
Even with an ancient divide, how
relevant is this letter for
Believers today?
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posted 17 February, 2015 to
Facebook
As a writer and teacher, I (JKM)
have been quite open and
forthright about my egalitarian
convictions. A common mistake
about evangelical egalitarians
is that they believe that all
differences between people have
been abolished in the Messiah,
which is an untruth. We believe
that in the post-resurrection
era, the equality lost at the
Fall between Adam and Eve has
been restored.
Differences do exist among God's
people. But, differences among
people are not as important in
comparison to what Yeshua has
accomplished in being sacrificed
for human sin. Our unity as
Believers is predicated upon our
common faith, not our human
differences.
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posted 16 February, 2015 to
Facebook
There are some huge issues that
divide people in the Messianic
movement, which we will surely
need some resolution on in order
to move forward and achieve
God's objectives. Does God have
one or two groups of elect? Are
the chosen of God Israel and the
Church? Or, do the chosen of God
compose an enlarged Kingdom
realm of Israel--with a restored
Twelve Tribes at the center, and
expanded borders to incorporate
the righteous from the nations?
Much of this is addressed in
today's featured publication:
Are
Non-Jewish Believers Really a
Part of Israel?
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posted 13 February, 2015 to
Facebook
Long before the release of what
is anticipated to be a massive
Messianic Sabbath Helper,
will be the release of the
mini-book Shabbat: Sabbath
for Messianic Believers.
This will be a five-chapter
excerpt from Part I. Released
along with this will be
Shabbat Service for Messianic
Believers, including the
liturgy for an Erev Shabbat
home dinner, a morning
Shabbat service, and
Havdallah.
Only one chapter and the
Shabbat Service publication
are all that remain to see these
two titles released this Spring!
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posted 11 February, 2015 to
Facebook
After four weeks of having
examined Acts 18:1-18 and being
introduced to the letter of 1
Corinthians, this week we will
begin the examination of its
actual contents! This week's
study will be focused on 1
Corinthians 1:1-13, where we
will get a feel for the Apostle
Paul's relationship with the
Corinthians, as well as some of
the problems that had erupted in
the city among the Messiah
followers.
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posted 10 February, 2015 to
Facebook
As I have been compiling data on
the Messianic Sabbath Helper,
one statement I encountered in
the Dead Sea Scrolls stated,
"Any living human who falls into
a body of water or a cistern
shall not be helped out with
ladder, rope, or other
instrument" (CD 11.16-17). So,
is someone in the Qumran
community fell down a well,
rescue could not be made until
Shabbat was over.
I got locked in my office late
Saturday afternoon, due to a
faulty doorknob which will need
replacing. Thankfully, we got
the door open long before
Shabbat was over!
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posted 09 February, 2015 to
Facebook
I apologize for not having
written some of these daily
posts for a few weeks, but now
that the
1
Corinthians study is
underway, and the ongoing
Sabbath
writing is also
proceeding--I am going to try to
"do better."
If you have not already, do
peruse the
Future
Publications section
of the TNN Press site. This will
keep you posted on some of the
things that we will be
coordinating this year, with
plans already shaping up for
2016 assignments.
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